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        Looking for Teetee

        by Antje Herden

        TeeTee has disappeared! The seven friends Cosmo, Snackie, Lena, Ben, Sara, Saha and Junis miss the peculiar but helpful elderly lady who used to walk around in the neighbourhood with her »magic bag«. As the police doesn’t take the children seriously, they decide to take things in their own hands. Why did Lady TeeTee disappear and where could she be? The friends find out that TeeTee has been living in the old villa nearby in which she has also given shelter to others in need. Has the dentist kidnapped her? Is Ben’s Dad involved? The children persistently follow clue after clue and finally find out about a case of grave injustice… In the end, they do not only save TeeTee but with her the villa and their inhabitants.

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        We Are Superheroes. Almost

        by Silke Wolfrum

        Moritz and his Dad spend their summer holidays at home. A perfect time to practice becoming superheroes! So every day, they give one another a task. Will Moritz dare to get a golden hair of the always furious neighbourhood-girl Lotti? Will he dare to go all by himself to the bakery down the street buying rolls from the huge and monster-looking baker? Will Dad manage to get a smile out of the strict elderly lady next door and will he dare to approach the grumpy landlord in order to ask him to finally have their toilet fixed? … Ten superhero-challenges in which Moritz and his Dad need to overcome their fears, but who said that superhero-training is peanuts?

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        Gawkie - Is Broccoli Poisonous?

        by Charlotte Habersack

        Broccoli? Yuk! Jona does not like to eat things which are green. String beans, cucumbers or spinach? Bah! While Jona is sitting in front of his lunch which he doesn't like, luckily his friend giraffe Gawkie comes along. Gawkie does not mind eating green things. Jona explains to Gawkie, why giraffes have such a long neck. ...So couldn't Gawkies long neck help Jona to reach his dessert which is on the very top shelf of the fridge? But oh no, it is a bowl of green jelly. What will Jona do with it?

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        Zombert - Help! The Cars Are Coming!

        by Kai Pannen

        Normally, the cemetery, where zombie Zombert hangs out, is a calm and peaceful place. So the surprise is big as he finds out that a road for cars is supposed to be built across the cemetery. For once, the two friends zombie Zombert and Conrad are of the same opinion as Ignaz, the cemetery guard whom they normally play tricks on. The three of them agree that something needs to be done to stop the loud and smelly cars on the new highway…

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        Carla And This Thing Called Love

        by Iris Wolfermann

        Carla is in love with Ben. But maybe, she is also a little bit in love with Tan. In any case, she is sure that she will marry one of them later on, when she is big. Everyone seems to be in love at the moment, even her big sister Lea. And the pigeons on the road. They are having sex. Carla has learnt at school, what sex is. It has something to do with being in love. But why does everyone turn red when you ask them about it?

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        Run, Speedy, Run!

        by Martin Klein

        At the last moment, Niki and her brother Rafa manage to save a turtle from being run over by a car. From now on, Speedy lives in the communal garden behind their apartment and spends the rest of the summer there. Niki and Rafa feed him and Speedy even performs a special racing turtle training. As in early spring, a housing block is supposed to be built in the garden, the children are upset – after all, Speedy must be hibernating somewhere below the grass. As they cannot find their beloved turtle at first, they are very sad. But Speedy is always good for a surprise…

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        Topless

        by Jutta Nymphius

        Amelie is 13 and really good at Photoshop. If only she could also photoshop her own life as well… Her parents are constantly fighting with each other, her best friend Nick behaves strangely and she has to face the fact that she is not one of the trendy girls – if her classmates want to pick on someone, usually Amelie is the victim. – And then there is her body: Her belly is too big and her breasts too small. It is clear, that Elias whom she has liked for quite a while already, will never just even look at her. Things change, when Kira is new in Amelie’s class. She introduces Elias to Amelie and the two start to videochat regularly. Soon, there is nothing that Amelie wouldn’t share with Elias. They can talk about anything and Amelie is on cloud nine. As one day, Elias wants to see her topless, she hesitates but finally sends him a picture of herself. As it goes public in the chatroom of her class, Amelie is shocked at first, but in the end, it becomes obvious that Elias didn’t know Amelie as much as he thought he did…

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